Kinoole Farmers Market

This is a must for Saturday mornings ! A fantastic selection of breads , fruits and grindz . Easy on/out and cheap ! Start your weekend off with a very local market the serves a ton of ALOHA with a smile !!

Interesting variety of products and vendors as well as very fresh products.

I love this Farmers Market. Very easy to park and getting in and out of. It is small compared to the downtown market but it has many of the same features. Fresh produce, delicious homemade foods, plants, crafts, and more in a clean, friendly environment.

This is the place for the best fresh baked bread. You have to go early on Saturday mornings but it's worth it! All the bread is good but our favorite is the huge ball of sourdough. Buy two so you can freeze one and sleep in next week!

A small, well-run, food-centric market. Browse the wide and varied selection of fresh produce; note how attractive everything is here—I have yet to see a sad fruit or vegetable here over the course of more than a year. Have a good cup of coffee, grab a chat with one of the friendly booth operators, grab some farm eggs before they’re gone, a baked good or two, and maybe even some fresh salad rolls for the road. Walk away with a bag full of quality food, a mostly intact wallet, and maybe even a smile on your face.

So kind people are there. I'm little bit late so there're only few sellers. Coming by 10 o'clock is recommended.

Great selection of fruits and vegetables, with the addition of fabulous breads, jams and specialty items. Potted plants and lovely bunches of flowers including Miniature Antheriums and Orchid sprays.

A very quaint and interesting little place. Lots of vegetables and fruits. There is lots of avocados, some larger then your hand, some smaller ones and some round ones. Fresh coconut and boy is it good!!!

A surprising visit that left me amazed as I departed with more than I thought I would've found. Kinoole Farmer's Market, a small yet charming venue only on Saturdays in Hilo located at Kinoole Plaza. 12+ vendors total, a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, baked goods and plants to purchase. All spread-out in a less crowded venue than the one at Downtown Hilo. Yes, not as much vendors to choose from. But, this market at Kinoole Street places a powerful "punch", with less repeats of the same items, quality offered. I purchased beautiful papayas from one vendor. Her tables organized well, items bagged, one of the best visually presented tables there. I had to stop myself from picking up more than I needed. Delicious for breakfast. And another sweet vendor, I purchased purple sweet potatoes. The price equal to the downtown market and equally as enjoyable steamed. Thank you. Stunning, bright, eye catching anthiriums of all colors and sizes in buckets throughout. I immediately walked there, I wanted to buy these anthiriums. Even if I didn't have use for them which I did, I still would've bought some. Sold in 6 counts or a dozen, prices reflects the sizes of the anthiriums selected. This is where the fun began for me. Selecting each anthirium, like in a candy store with the choice to bag your own chocolates. I felt extremely amused, somewhat giddy at times. Thanks to the ladies from Green Point Nurseries Inc. who were just as vibrant as the colors being offered from their farms in Panaewa and Kurtistown. Could it be? Was it? Oh yes, as I snagged a bag of her Big Island Li Hing Mui Potato Chips. First it's the crunch, a slight smokiness from being fried, then the taste of potatoes sliced with personality. The salty and sweet tones of the li hing mui powder mix comes through in a delighful way. So many sweet options to choose from, made with the help from her daughters in Papaikou. I will return, K & L Aoki. I was just going to snap a photo and move on. But return customers to this vendor had me stop and think twice. I selected a loaf of Cranberry-Walnut from Daily Kneads Brick Oven Breads. Met John in the process, the owner as he went through his bread selections, made from scatch jams, chocolate bars made from cacao beans from his property in Kurtistown. Fascinating. And his bread, OMG. Wish I had bought two, the whole loaf gone that night + into breakfast the next day. Slightly moist in texture with a spring-like bounce, an even golden brown color. Intermittent crunch, sweet nut like flavor, yet wheaty, enjoyable to the finish. With or without butter, plain I would say was mostly desired. Something of an artisan level, perfection done during the kneading and baking process. Can't wait for my next Saturday off to buy more. I witnessed the local community coming and going. Stepping in to purchase what they wanted and quickly leaving. Most knowing exactly what to buy. An older crowd, no tourisits. With minimal traffic, less crowded and, ample parking, an easy choice for simple shopping for most. I had the pleasure of visiting some of these wonderful individuals and the business they represent. To learn about how the items were made, where they're from, who was involved in the process to get here, their stories. Know that there are others worth mentioning and visiting. I hope to do so on my next visit. I hope you do too.

Great outdoor (covered) market. Highly recommend for anyone visiting Hilo. Best on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Clothes, food, decorations, knickknacks, souvenirs, etc. great produce from local farmers. A must for anyone touring Hilo.

So many ch fun an, beautiful arts and crafts and lots of local fruit , vegetables and food to sample.

Went to Hilo for a quick trip to visit family & of course one has to eat and yelp. Literally a hop, skip and jump from Aunty's house is the Kinoole Farmer's market. I love the open market, everything is fresh and SAMPLES galore. I tried an unusual fruit called Pitaya (sp?). It's yellow and kind of ugly looking on the outside, but when you cut it open, it's white(almost like a kiwi) with black seeds.It was really sweet. Next there was a lady selling fruit leathers,passion fruit, guava and lillikoi, good tasting not to sweet. I found my Warabi! What is that you ask? It's a fern shoot that grows up in the mountains, it's sold at the KCC open market, but I guess because they have to fly it in it's twice the price at KCC. Another vendor (forgot name) was selling, flavored taro chips (wasabi, furikake) and the chip I liked was the crunchy beef jerky chips. Love Hilo and Farmer's markets....Buy LOCAL! (And bring your own bag, otherwise you get charged = bag law)

7/15/08: I only recently discovered this Farmer's Market (established sometime in 2007) after joining a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and researching the roots of local produce (like my pun? This is as creative as it gets). It appears that this market is sponsored by a local trade organization (Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, non-profit established in 1950 to "Work for the solution of the problems of the farm, the farm home and the rural community by use of the recognized advantages of organized action"). Anyways, I've heard and read from a few sources that everything you find here is 100% Hawaii grown products (local to this county which I'll verify). Somehow I feel better supporting farmers who are local and sponsored by a trade organization than another that is paying rent on a booth to a profit motivated landlord (if that's the case, I would prefer to shop at a grocery store). My wife and I plan to supplement our weekly vegetable box with produce from this market, I'll submit an update review in a few weeks, stay tuned... Open Saturdays from 7:00 AM to 12 Noon. Come early as the popular items are gone quickly. You'll find mostly locals here, not many tourist trinkets here.

Small farmers market located in the parking lot of the Kawate Seed Shop and Hilo Rice Noodle Restaurant. We stopped there this past weekend to look for a few vegetables that we forgot to pick up at the Hilo Farmers Market. Although it is a small market, we were surprised to find what we needed. We have gone there in the past a couple of times. The vendors there have everything from fresh veggies from Waimea, fruit and orchid plants, to delicious Ka'u coffee. I picked up a bag of coffee from Rusty's Ka'u coffee, and was impressed with the taste of the coffee. They have different varieties and even coffee mugs and t-shirts for their company. There is a lot of parking, with the vendors set up right in the middle of the parking lot. Open only on saturdays until around 3 p.m. Good market for those who don't want to fight the crowds at the downtown Hilo Farmers Market.

Small farmer's market. Got the bare essentials, produce, food, plants and even tai chi.

Great, friendly, LOCAL farmer's market. Because it's not too big, there is not a lot of overlap, so if (for example) the coffee guy is out of town, you are out of luck. But I would rather shop here than at the Hilo market to support local farmers.